Bessarabia was a region in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Romania, located in the present-day Republic of Moldova. It was a historical province of Romania and was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1940. Rāutu was born in 1917 in the city of Chișinău, which is the capital of Moldova and was then part of Bessarabia.
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